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Catechism of the Catholic Church
E. Para. 372: Man and woman were made “for each other”—not that God left them half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons, in which each can be “helpmate” to the other, for they are equal as persons (“bone of my bones . . .”) and complementary as masculine and feminine. In marriage God unites them in such a way that, by forming “one flesh” (Gen. 2:24), they can transmit human life: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth” (Gen 1:28). By transmitting human life to their descendants, man and woman as spouses and parents cooperate in a unique way in the Creator’s work (Cf. GS 50 § 1).
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